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Friday, December 30, 2016

It takes a while to clear out actual ships, but squadrons are fast! I can do a squadron Monday - Friday and probably fit the Pelta in there somewhere next week. Sounds good? We are going to talk about the new Wave 5 Rebel squadrons today, specifically the Z-95 Headhunter, the predecessor to the X-Wing and all-around cheap, crappy squadron.

Thursday, December 29, 2016

The Arquitens Class Light Cruiser brings to the table something the Imperials really haven't had before - a long range / Turbolaser based light cost ship. Not a brawler by any means, the Arquitens-Class looks to fill a vital role in Imperial fleets whose big Red dice contributions have come from Victory or Imperial-Class Destroyers.

Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Final Squadrons from Corellian Conflict, and we can dig into the meat of Wave 5!

Dagger Squadron - 15 points

An interesting anti-squadron bump to the traditional B-Wing, where Dagger gets an extra Black in exchange for one of the generic's 3 Blues, and access to the Swarm Keyword. 1 point is a fairly harmless cost over the generic, especially if you're doing Rieekan things. Might combo well in a hybrid role along with a Z-95 swarm.

Ten Numb - 19 points

"While attacking a squadron, you may spend 1 blue dice with a Critical Result Icon. If you do, each other enemy squadron at distance 1 of the defender suffers 1 damage."

Everyone is very excited about this guy, and for good reason. With reroll shenanigans like Toryn Farr, or double tap shenanigans like Adar Tallon or Yavaris, you can chew through enemy fighters like Mauler Mithel normally does for the Imperials. He is slow, and that is his only trick though - no boosted bombing damage for him. Expect to see a lot of him in Combat Air Patrol style fighter configurations.

Friday, December 2, 2016

Another impressive milestone for those of us who understand math from a base 10 system, we've published 200 articles on Steel Squadron HQ! Well, we did just now, with this article, because it is #200! That's 200 articles of the best strategy and tactical advance you could ever ask for! And that doesn't include the pages that we've put up to make finding old articles and understand the game better.